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12.
Top 50 SEO Quiz For 2014
10. Which of the following would be the best choice of
URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?
● A: www.wildlifeonline.com/animals/crocodile
● B: www.wildlifeonline.com/category/277/article/563
● C: www.wildlifeonline.com/O0665?id=563&cat=277
● D: text.wildlifeonline.com/category/crocodile
● E: www.wildlifeonline.com/563

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11. How can meta description tags help with the practice of
search engine optimization?
● A: They're an important ranking factor in the search algorithms.
● B: They help to tell the search engines which keywords are most
important on your page.
● C: They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on
your listing.
● D: Trick question; meta descriptions are NOT important.

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12. The de-facto version of a page located on the
primary URL you want associated with the content is
known as:
● A: Canonical Version
● B: Empirical Version
● C: Heretical Version
● D: Preferential Version
● E: Home Page

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14. Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that
has been permanently relocated and all links to the old page
will pass their influence to the new page location?
● A: 302
● B: 301
● C: 311
● D: 500
● E: 300

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15. If you want a page to pass value through its links,
but stay out of the search engines' indices, which of
the following tags should you place in the header?
● A: NOINDEX, FOLLOW
● B: NOODP
● C: INDEX, NOFOLLOW
● D: NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW
● E: INDEX, FOLLOW

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16. If these URLs have the same content,
example.com/avocado and example.com/avocado/
are technically considered duplicate content and
should be fixed.
● A: TRUE
● B: FALSE

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17. If you have a page at www.example.com/page1,
which of the following robots.txt directives prevents
search spiders from crawling the URL?
● A: Disallow: /
● B: Disallow:
● C: Disallow: /page1
● D: Both A & C

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18. You decide to add a blog to your ecommerce
site. What is the preferred url structure?
● A: www.example.com/blog
● B: www.blog.example.com/
● C: Create new site at www.blog.com and link it to
www.example.com

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19. High-quality links to a site's homepage may help
to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the
same domain.
● A: TRUE
● B: FALSE

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Top 50 SEO Quiz For 2014
20. Pages generated by search results (Search within
Search) are a good way to add content to your site.
● A: TRUE
● B: FALSE

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Top 50 SEO Quiz For 2014
23. Which of the following links is likely to pass the
most value from a single page?
● A: A universal footer link
● B: A navigational link contained in the header
● C: A left-hand navigation link
● D: A right sidebar navigation link
● E: A link contained in the main body text

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25. If a page includes more than one
rel="canonical", Google will...
● A: Ignore them all
● B: Count the first one
● C: Count the last one
● D: Guess which one makes more sense, and use that
one

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27. What is an example of a "soft" 404 error?
● A: A page that returns a 404 HTTP response code,
but quickly changes to a 200 a short time later.
● B: A page that returns a 200 HTTP response code,
and displays a blank page.
● C: A page that displays a 404 HTTP response code,
and displays a 404 error page.
● D: A page that returns a 404 code with pillows.

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28. True or false: rel="canonical" can be used to
point to content on a different domain.
● A: TRUE
● B: FALSE

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33. When including Open Graph (OG) tags on a
webpage, which of the following is NOT a required
property?
● A: og:title
● B: og:description
● C: og:image
● D: og:url
● E: og:type

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Top 50 SEO Quiz For 2014
34. True or false: For best results, incorporate
authorship markup on every page of your website,
including the homepage and category pages.
● A: TRUE
● B: FALSE

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Top 50 SEO Quiz For 2014
35. All other factors being equal, which would be
the most desirable link profile?
● A: One link from each of 100 different domains
● B: 1,000 links all from one domain
● C: 10,000 internal links

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43. Which element of a link does Google NOT
consider?
● A: The relationship/ownership/influence of the
linking domain and linked-to domain
● B: The rel="nofollow" attribute
● C: The domain on which the linking page is hosted
● D: The HTML <id> attribute

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44. Which of these concepts has Google filed a (now public)
patent about?
● A: The likelihood that content shared by a user of social
networks will spread
● B: The impact of lunar cycles on content creation and search
queries
● C: Labeling Facebook, Twitter, and other social network shares
in search results
● D: Modifying the flow of PageRank through links based on the
HTML code-to-content ratio

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45. Google+ influences Google's search results in which of the following ways:
● A: For logged-in searchers, webpages that have been shared or +1'd by people you
follow may appear higher in the results
● B: For logged-in searchers, webpages that have been shared or +1'd by people who
follow you will appear higher in the results
● C: Those with Google+ accounts can connect them to their published works to
nudge Google search to show authorship next to their pages in the results
● D: Options A & B are both true
● E: Options A & C are both true

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46. What does the phrase "social shares and higher search rankings in
Google are well-correlated" mean?"
● A: It means there's a chance (as expressed by the correlation coefficient
number) that this input is used in Google's ranking algorithm.
● B: It means that the more social shares a webpage has, the higher it appears
in Google's search results for a given query.
● C: It means that, on average, pages with more social shares appear higher
in Google rankings than those with fewer shares. The correlation
coefficient expresses the degree with which this occurs.
● D: It means that social shares may or may not be used by Google's
algorithm to rank webpages.

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48. What are valid reasons why your webpage's title may not appear in Google's search
results exactly as it does in the page title element in your HTML?
● A: Google has overwritten your title element with a title taken from the Yahoo! Directory.
● B: Your title does not contain your brand name or other key terms in the users' search
query (or doesn't include them at the start of the title element), so Google is using text
from elsewhere on the page.
● C: Google is pulling a title for your webpage from one you entered into an AdWords ad
for that URL (that produces a higher clickthrough rate).
● D: Your page contains the meta "title-h1" tag specifying that Google should use the text
within the H1 in place of the title element for the search results listing
● E: Both options B & D

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49. Which of the following are true about the growth of mobile
vs. desktop search in Google?
● A: Mobile search queries overtook desktop in 2013 and are
expected to continue growing faster.
● B: Desktop search queries are now shrinking, and mobile is
growing, but will not overtake desktop in the next 2-3 years.
● C: Both desktop and mobile are growing, but mobile is growing
faster and is expected to overtake desktop in the next 1-2 years.
● D: Desktop is not growing (but not shrinking much). Mobile is
expected to overake desktop in number of queries by 2016.